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	Hello, welcome to Podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 599.
	For the 28th of February, 2003, I'm joined by the one and only Stelios.
	Hello. And today we're going to be looking at El Presidente is going full based in El Salvador.
	We've got machetes don't leave and we've got criticizing communism is now offensive.
	Now, before we get into any of that, just a heads up, at three o'clock today, we've got a very good episode of Brokernomics coming out.
	This is an interview between myself and Nick Corbishley, where we get into digital IDs, which is of course a topic at the moment.
	If you're watching this today, you have still got time to respond to the government consultation on digital IDs.
	It does close today, so you can perhaps watch that and get some feedback before we go into it.
	Right. Shall we get into the first segment?
	Of course. The most popular president has taken down MS-13.
	And that's great news, isn't it, folks?
	Because the most popular president has taken swift and decisive action against gang violence that have been terrorising poor communities in his country.
	And his popularity has now surged even higher and is currently enjoying a 96% approval rating.
	Before I get into that, let me quickly direct you to this.
	This is Epochs episode 95, where Bew has a special guest on, which is me, and we look at historical financial bubbles, and we get into a bunch of them, but mainly we focus on the tulip one and the South Sea bubble, so that's a good fun episode, lots of great feedback on that.
	Right, so yes, who am I talking about, this most popular president?
	Well, 96%, I must say, sounds really good.
	Yeah, it's not Joe Biden, obviously.
	It's actually Nyle Bukele from El Salvador.
	Now, this is a guy, and these are outside measured approval ratings, and he's always in the high 90s.
	I remind you that Joe Biden is around about 35% at the moment, his approval ratings, and the Tories in the UK could only wish that it could get as high as 35%.
	They're currently polling around the low 20s.
	So what is it that has made him so popular and upset so many of the Liberals?
	Here's a bit of video that we can play in the background while we talk about this.
	So, Bicali has been making headlines and upsetting liberals because he's in the process of getting really tough on gangs in his country.
	In particular, MS-13 and the 18th Street gang.
	Now, El Salvador is a small Central American country.
	It's only got a population of six and a half million, so it's not a big country.
	And it was considered until recently the homicide capital of the world, with an estimated one murder an hour only a few years ago.
	Now to put that in comparison, because it's such a small country, that is like a city like New York having 33 murders a day.
	It was a huge amount of murders.
	Now, that largely stemmed from this rivalry between the MS-13 and the 18th Street Gang.
	Now, funny story with those, they were actually originally two LA street gangs.
	They originated in Los Angeles, California, in the 70s and 80s.
	And originally these gangs were set up to protect Salvadorian immigrants from the other gangs that were already established in the area.
	But over time they grew and their penchant for brutality sort of really marked them out and they sort of moved up the power levels.
	So to summarize this, you're saying that they started as protecting, within quotation marks, the people of El Salvador?
	Yeah, I mean, to a certain extent, the type of people who go into this do.
	But I mean, that is how the legacy is defined.
	But obviously, it may quickly turn into something else.
	Now, after the El Salvadorian Civil War ended in 1992, there was these large-scale deportations from the U.S., They basically took these guys and then sent them back to El Salvador, where they proceeded to utterly dominate the country.
	Now, sort of mixed feelings on this.
	I mean, obviously, the US has the right to deport people, and it's quite sensible for them to do that.
	On the other hand, if I was an El Salvadorian, I think I'd be pretty pissed off about this, because basically these gangs achieved their highest power levels by being inculcated in a failed state like LA. They really needed to be in a failed state like that in order to achieve what they ultimately became.
	They became corrupted by that and then they sort of took that back into El Salvador and they turned it into an utter hellscape, I have to say.
	I've seen documentaries on this and everybody there has friends and family that have been murdered.
	I actually knew a guy who went out to El Salvador and And he was telling me he was speaking to a family, and they described what happened to a friend of his, which was basically, you know, he had two young daughters, one of them was 12, and the gangs turned up at his house and said that your 12-year daughter is going to be the girlfriend of one of our guys, and he's coming with us.
	And, you know, at that point, you know, you're tempted to, especially if you're a father yourself, you're tempted to say, no way on hell would I ever let that happen.
	The problem is if you try and stop them, they will kill you and probably your wife and your other daughter as well.
	Yeah. So it is a horrible situation that the people of El Salvador have been living under these two gangs.
	In 2015, Vice produced a documentary called The Gangs of El Salvador, which was actually pretty good, and interviewed a whole number of people.
	Including experts. Now these experts said that the gang problem was not solvable and that this could not be disposed of and concessions had to be made to this gang.
	And that was the conventional wisdom of academia and experts and sociologists.
	Oh, academics went wrong about something.
	They do occasionally go wrong with something.
	I find this hard to believe.
	And that was the thinking until this man came along.
	This is Nailib Bukele.
	And in a few short years, he has turned his country into, well, he has achieved the most successful reduction in murder rate of probably any nation, maybe in the history of mankind.
	The streets of El Salvador are safe for the first time in a generation to walk at night, and he did it with a complete and total brutal crackdown on crime.
	Let's have a look at this Daily Mail article.
	I like it particularly for the brilliant photos that he's got in it.
	Let's go to the first photo because there are some wonderful photos on this.
	So here we go. This is the new prison they've opened.
	They've rounded up in total in the country 63,000 gang members in this massive crackdown.
	63,000?
	63,000 is the total they've rated up.
	This is the new mega prison they've put together.
	Now this one is going to hold 40,000 gang members.
	Now, Bekele has said this will be their new home.
	It will be where they live for decades, all mixed, unable to do any further harm to the population.
	This prison is made up of eight buildings.
	Let's start to scroll down a bit so we can get some of the images from it.
	So this is the batch of the first 2000 arriving in their new home.
	They've obviously been schooled into not giving any lip to the guards, so they're keeping their heads down as they go.
	Just pause on this one.
	I did get into it with some liberals on Twitter, because of course they're saying, oh, what if innocent people are wrapped up in this?
	I don't know how many innocent people cover themselves head to toe in gang tats.
	And when I pointed this out to someone, they said, oh, well, tattoos aren't illegal.
	It's like, oh, fuck. I really don't understand this argument that they make because, I mean, there is always the possibility of a mistake if you should never incarcerate anyone because there is a possibility of a mistake.
	Yeah, when they look like this, I would say...
	And actually, people in this particular prison, they've gone through the full judicial process.
	So there are other prisons of people that are perhaps the younger kids and the people who haven't been through the whole process yet.
	Should we scroll on a little bit further?
	There's some other good picks.
	Yeah, rows and rows of the first bunch.
	Here we go. Let's pause on this one.
	So this prison is made up of eight buildings, and each building has about 32 cells in it.
	Now, these cells, they're about 1,000 square feet, and each cell holds 100 prisoners.
	Yeah, so it's not a personal cell.
	No, no, no, no. Not a custom cell.
	100 prisoners per cell. Each cell has 80 beds, and each one will have at least 100 prisoners.
	And they have two toilets and two sinks.
	Yeah. And that's it.
	There were no luxury. And when I say that's it, I mean, no TVs, not even any mattresses.
	These are metal beds.
	The prison, you'll be pleased to hear, is equipped with dining halls and exercise rooms and Pool tables and tennis tables, but they are exclusively for the guard's use.
	So, you know, they haven't been going soft.
	Prisoners will only leave the cell if they have a legal meeting with their lawyer, and if they need to be punished by being put in a small, unlit, windowless cell.
	The Justice Minister, Gustavo Vitero, greeted the first arrivals and he told them, what did he tell them?
	He said, know that you will never walk out of here.
	You will pay for what you've done. So you can see in the background, those are the cells, which, you know, over 100 guys in each of those, and those are the metal beds sort of all racked up there.
	This is absolute no messing around, getting to grips with a problem that everybody thought couldn't be solved.
	It is so based that it inspired me to load up Steam and fire up Prison Architect to see if I could create a prison this based.
	So... Is this justified?
	Western liberals seem horrified by this.
	They've been ignoring El Salvador for years, but suddenly they feel motivated to start writing articles about El Salvador.
	I would show the articles, but I don't want to give them the oxygen of publicity, frankly.
	These people don't deserve it.
	Because El Salvador was an absolute hell.
	I mean, and these are the guys doing it.
	And, you know, let's scroll on through.
	I think there's another really...
	It is really disconcerting that liberals, as you say, they do it now.
	Now that we have pictures.
	They've always been, especially the US Democrats, they've always been fans of MS-13.
	There was a... One of Ted Cruz's cases, I think he argued before the Supreme Court, they were trying to get one of these guys off of death row because a group of them basically raped two Texan schoolgirls to death.
	And quite justifiably, they went on death row, but Bill Clinton was intervening, trying to stop it.
	I mean, it's just what Democrats do when they're evil, aren't they?
	Yeah. Monitoring the prison.
	I think below this there is another good one.
	Oh, a bit further down.
	There we go. So that's a nice one of the cell where these people will be spending the rest of their lives.
	So not excessive luxury, I would say.
	I suspect one or two of them may be regretting their life choices at this point.
	Now, you might think this is a bit brutal.
	I mean, it is a bit, isn't it? But these people are, you know, the lowest of the low.
	They have absolutely...
	You have to be serious about law enforcement, otherwise you have no society.
	Yeah. And I can understand, you know, some of these guys, they would have got into it because, you know, their older brother or their father was involved in it and they got sucked into it at an early age and they sort of got pulled through.
	But I'm sorry, but things like this have to get fixed.
	You can't have a country which is completely dysfunctional, people being murdered at a horrific rate.
	So, what do El Salvadorians think about this?
	This is a collection of responses that I pulled up when this was being discussed on Twitter, and what a number of El Salvadorians in the comments themselves said, because of course these liberals were going in there and they were complaining about this.
	So one El Salvadorian chap says, you have no idea what you're talking about.
	Only Salvadorians know what these criminals have put us through.
	My advice to anyone who thinks this is horrible is to do some research, then you can come to your own conclusions.
	For us, this is heaven.
	Another El Salvadorian chap, he says, My family is Salvadorian.
	I've travelled back and forth my whole life.
	These gangs were vicious.
	They would play soccer with decapitated heads.
	They would chop people up and feed them dogs.
	They would harass the community, make businesses pay them rent.
	I believe karma is dealt fairly in this life.
	There's another chap saying...
	I hope it stays that way, because many times we see crime being persecuted, but then the effects are not lasting.
	Well, under this president, presumably they're going to stay in.
	Another guy says, what I can tell is on the streets, finally we're at peace.
	Two years ago we were living a nightmare.
	Some friends and family were killed by these MFers, so as long as they're there, I don't give an F. Another chap, another Salvadorian says, I totally agree with you.
	The country's improved 100%.
	People are regaining hope.
	I can walk, my phone in my hand, at 10pm without worrying about getting murdered by one of these psychopaths.
	For 30 years, people had to hide from 8pm until the next morning in some places.
	There's another guy giving his own personal experience.
	He's saying, I saw my own uncle and cousin stabbed to death by two MS-13 terrorists.
	Um... This is nightmarish and I think it should remind us of the value of the rule of law.
	And how dangerous it is that right now the discourse in Western countries is that the rule of law is a bad concept.
	It's inherently unjust or that this is nonsense and we should be mindful of things like that.
	Yeah, well I mean I'm no fan of heavy-handed government action but you know in a country like this we had or you know at one time we had a decent civil society where people did not brutalize each other.
	That may be changing through certain government policies which I think you might be talking about in your segment but once things have got to this stage you do need that sort of response.
	One final comment from an El Salvadorian There was a boy, a neighbour.
	Oh, so this is a young guy.
	This has just been translated. This is a young guy in El Salvador, and this is what he said.
	There was a boy, a neighbour, who repaired shoes and sold DVD movies.
	We became friends.
	He got to know my taste in movies.
	One Saturday, I went to get him a DVD and found his body lying on the street.
	He'd fallen behind on his payment of the rent, the fees that these gangs were extracting from people.
	So, you know, how was this done?
	How was this achieved? Well, I'm going to come back to that Pekeli chap, and forgive me if I start to fanboy a bit, because this guy is bloody amazing.
	So he started as a small town mayor, a member of the main left-wing party.
	He then became mayor of San Salvador, the capital city.
	He realised that the two main parties were basically a corrupt uniparty, so he got out, and he founded a new party, the New Ideas Party.
	Now, at that point, the El Salvadorian Swamp do what the establishment Swamp in all countries do, and they basically performed a massive stitch-up to shut it down.
	So they got this party disallowed, they got it dissolved, and he then went and joined one of the smaller right-wing parties.
	And through that, he won the presidency.
	Now, of course, more swamp antics continued, and his response to that was to go back to the people.
	And he won a super majority.
	He won a massive amount of electoral support, and he removed five Supreme Court justices who had been blocking everything he did.
	Now, Bolsonaro could have learnt from this guy because, well, we're not allowed on YouTube to say what happened to him, but he didn't deal with his courts issue and it came back to bite him, whereas this guy, you know, did do that.
	And it's a reminder to the swamp, you know, that people will push back one way or another.
	He's done a whole lot of other based things, which I don't have time to get into here.
	His COVID response was brilliant.
	Basically, he didn't buy the vaccines, but he got donated some.
	And he said, look, if you want a vaccine, you can have one.
	But we are not going to make you take one and we're not going to treat you any differently.
	And actually, his COVID response was, I think you should get some exercise and eat well.
	Yeah. And go outside. Very sensible.
	Another very base thing that he did is he's basically suffering under the yoke of the US dollar.
	Because, of course, even if you're American, you suffer from the vagarities of that currency system.
	It's even worse for these guys because they can't print it.
	So he made Bitcoin legal tender.
	And, you know, one of the things that that did is there were actually two million Salvadorians working abroad.
	A lot of them was working as housemates for rich Democrats.
	And they were having to send a lot of money back home to support their families.
	And Western Union were charging them about 10%.
	So by adopting a Bitcoin standard, those transfer fees are now dropped to zero.
	So it's like getting an extra month's paycheck.
	That they get.
	And this guy, he is so based.
	I want to play you a short clip from an interview that he did with Tucker Carlson when he explains what a con GDP is.
	How is GDP fake?
	Oh, well, if we're two guys here and I say, hey, Tucker, I'll pay you a thousand dollars if you drink this glass of water.
	Right? And you say, okay, sure.
	And you drink it, I pay you $1,000.
	And then you say, hey, I'll pay you $1,000 if you drink my glass of water.
	So I drink your glass of water, and you pay me $1,000.
	So basically, nobody's any richer, I just got the same $1,000 I gave you in the first place, so we just drunk two glasses of water.
	But according to GDP, you just increase GDP by $2,000, and you created two jobs.
	That's brilliant. I wish I'd thought of explaining it like that.
	So I'm definitely stealing that one.
	In that same interview, he goes on to explain how corrupt the Federal Reserve is.
	He explains that it's neither federal nor does it have reserves.
	And he touches on other topics like how nobody watches CNN and how mainstream media is a cult.
	So, you know, I've got to say, I like the guy.
	El Salvador is fast improving.
	Its Bitcoin move has dramatically increased tourism because a lot of Bitcoiners, I mean, I want to go out there myself, go out and that's causing a lot of inward investment to come into the country.
	Okay. So ultimately, what this segment is all about is that no matter how bad your country gets, no matter how corrupt your political establishment, no matter how utterly decayed your society is, It is possible in just a few years to turn this stuff around with the right guy in charge.
	You know, Bolsonaro was meant to be this guy in Brazil, but he didn't confront the corrupt Supreme Court.
	And we know what happened to him as a result of that.
	Trump was supposed to be this guy in the US, but he tried to work within the system rather than bulldozing it down.
	And he got himself stymied and basically ended up treading water for those years.
	I think it's kind of sad that we have good politicians in really bad times and that Usually, when we have people doing the right thing, they create a system that creates people who don't do the right thing and that they just reap the benefits of that system.
	Yeah. We can't get solutions to the problems that we have within the establishment.
	It needs to be, at minimum, somebody who comes in sideways like this guy, which, like I said, Trump and Bolsonaro was supposed to be.
	But this guy has actually pulled it off because he recognized the problems that he was up against.
	Well, gangs. The destabilising effects of the US dollar, the Uni Party in his own country, the corrupt Supreme Court.
	And you know what he had?
	Political will. Yeah, and 90% of 6 million people behind him.
	So all the corrupt establishment and the judges and the politicians, they can do what they want, but they can't do squat against 5 million people being led by somebody who's got a sense of purpose.
	Absolutely. I think we should focus, though, a bit extra on the idea of political will and political determination because very frequently we have an abundance of people who know what is wrong with our society, whose diagnosis about the ills of their society is correct, but they are fatalistic.
	Yeah, I don't think we're there yet in the West because we still have far too many Mormons who think that the established system has got their best interests at heart.
	We have to remember in the UK and US and elsewhere, things are going to get worse before they get worse.
	But eventually, even the most NPC normie is going to notice the obvious at some point that the Western civilization is going to have to be ready to acknowledge that we've hit rock bottom.
	And I don't think it's happened there yet.
	I think it might take a fair bit longer.
	But this segment is a white pill that at some point you can turn things around.
	I think, though, that it is important to stress also that this guy is not fatalistic.
	And I'm saying this because I very frequently talk about fatalism.
	And I think that it is a problem with actually bringing forth solutions.
	Because if he thought that it was impossible to improve El Salvador, and as you said many...
	Within quotation marks, wise voices spoke otherwise.
	Conventional wisdom said that El Salvador is unsalvageable.
	He wouldn't do what he did.
	And he did it quickly.
	I mean, he had results in that first little town that he was mayor of and then also the capital and then the country as a whole.
	Yes, so it's not just understanding, it's also understanding and political determination.
	We have an abundance of people who have the correct diagnosis of their society.
	But the political system is very good at keeping those of us who can see the problems out of the system.
	We get filtered out a long way in advance.
	So, look, a couple of questions for the comments.
	Do you think this treatment of MS-13 and the 18th Street Gang, you know, those tiny prison cells, overcrowded, no mattresses, getting locked in there for the rest of life, do you think that's justified?
	Or do you think that's a bit harsh?
	And second question that I'd ask guys in the comments is how far away do you think the US and the UK is from hitting rock bottom and realising that we need to basically get tough and...
	Sort out these problems, no nonsense, and take on the corruption and the crime and all the rest of it.
	How far away do you think we are from that?
	Because my personal impression is I think that we're at least 10 years away in the US and UK from realising how bad our problems have got and for the people to wake up, we need to do something.
	Unfortunately, people in Western societies are really apprehensive, are really worried with law enforcement.
	It's not just that, it's the taking on the political establishment.
	The reason why they had this gang problem in the first place is because politicians and judges basically enabled it.
	Yes, but I was talking about Western societies.
	I think that here, for some reason, the people are too much bombarded by this leftist ideology, the woke ideology that tries to say anything that somehow may be unfair to someone should not be done.
	Of course, they're not talking about the majority of the population.
	But you can see in response to this stuff, I mean, they are...
	You know, they're speaking up for the anchors, but they're not speaking up for the people who had to watch their brother's head being used as a football.
	I want to give the final words to a tweet that I saw.
	Yeah, this Roko chap.
	He has a brilliant point on this.
	He says, 100%.
	It's spot on. In a follow-up tweet, which I'll just read, he says, our sense-making institutions are untrustworthy, which means there could be large and important problems with relatively easy solutions that we will never know about because the system we live in hides them from us.
	Perfect. Perfect way to end the segment.
	What have you got for us, Delius?
	Okay, so I want to talk about Ernesto Elliott, who was about to be deported but actually dodged deportation.
	And I want to focus also on the discussion surrounding the non-deportation of Of Ernesto Elliott and I want to say that it has to do a lot with some views of justice that unfortunately have gained currency.
	Usually justice was portrayed as being blindfolded holding a scale because the idea of it was that justice should not be influenced by the spur of the moment and by momentary feelings of you could say mercy.
	But after some disastrous intellectual developments in the last decades, especially in Western academia, or almost entirely, we may say, a new conception of social justice has taken place and it portrays justice as being much more Let's say, disconnected with the notion of deserve, dessert.
	So we are facing sometimes where the notion of just desserts and by implication the idea of justice as getting what you deserve as being somehow outdated in Western societies.
	It is the exact opposite from what you showed about some minutes ago.
	go.
	Yeah, we don't know yet.
	Yeah.
	So if you want to talk, if you want to find more about the person who's behind all this change, you can visit our website and check out symposium number three, Roles on Justice, where Carl and myself are talking about the philosophy of John Rawls, and particularly his method and his position in and particularly his method and his position in the social contract tradition.
	And we are talking about, eventually, we're talking about his idea that there is no such thing as dessert, because we are passive beings, we do not have free will, and even the, according to Rawls, even the attempt to try and do something is something even the attempt to try and do something is something that is not up to you.
	It's always something that a structure has ultimate responsibility about.
	Individuals do not have responsibility according to rules and we should constantly blame institutions.
	Sounds interesting. Yeah.
	So I must say it is a tragedy that we have to remind politicians and some people of obvious facts is that if you want to have a functional society, you need to have laws.
	You need to have justice.
	And most people are law-abiding, but there is a part of the population that does not respect the law.
	And it is that part that must be dealt with.
	That is why we are not talking just about legislation.
	We are talking also about law enforcement.
	There are many countries with a very rich tradition of legislature and very poor performance in law enforcement.
	Law enforcement. So I want to talk about this case with Ernesto Elliott.
	He was someone who was supposed to be deported and he dodged deportations because labor MPs Woke celebrities made some human rights appeal against this person and some others being deported.
	Sounds like the sort of thing they do.
	Yes, but at the moment it was also the Conservative Party that played along with it.
	So I think we should have a conversation as to why the Conservative Party played along with the demands of woke ideologues and Labour MPs.
	Because they are woke ideologues.
	Yeah, so an article was published on the Daily Mail Titled Where is the outrage now?
	Virtue signaling celebrities who opposed plans to deport Jamaican criminal who went on to murder a man in brutal knife fight remain silent as outraged MPs tell Louise to think again.
	So I'm reading from the article.
	A slew of celebrities who protested against the deportation of a Jamaican criminal have kept silent after it was revealed he went on to commit murder in the UK. Ernesto Elliott was due to be aboard the Home Office charter flight in December 2020, but dodged efforts to remove him thanks to last-minute human rights appeal backed by Labour MPs and a host of celebrities.
	But in June 2021, six months after he was supposed to have been removed from Britain, Elliott murdered a 35-year-old man in a horrific knife fight.
	Elliott was last month jailed for at least 26 years for murder.
	I remember this.
	This was before...
	Well, not this particular case, but I remember before COVID, there was that thing where they were trying to deport people all over the place.
	And you would get these absolute morons who would...
	I remember there was one flight where this girl stood up in the middle of the aisle and she was starting to scream something about, this guy is being deported, I'm not going to sit down until he's taken off the flight...
	And then, you know, she was filmed and it went round on Twitter and everybody was celebrating, oh, well done, you've managed to stop a deportation.
	And then the Home Office started doing that.
	They started bringing in these flights, didn't they?
	And then it was over to the lawyers and the human rights lawyers.
	Because human rights lawyers, I don't give a toss about me or you or anybody else or, you know, the little old lady that gets bashed over the head by these criminals.
	It's only the criminals that they care about.
	And then there was this massive thing just before COVID to basically stop anyone from ever getting deported.
	It's only when the camera is on.
	Yeah. And the eye of the public eye is directed towards a particular place.
	That is when, as you say, human rights, people who appeal to human rights in such contexts.
	And these are two of the numpsies that spoke out at the time, are they?
	Yes. And if you remember, it was a fight in North Greenwich where Ernesto Elliott and two other people, one of which, one of who was his son, they stole drugs from another person with a machete and they were having a machete fight.
	And some people were videoing.
	Right. Yeah. And there were many videos of it.
	And I must say there was a video with someone telling his wife, call the police, and she said someone else is going to do it.
	Anyway, back into our article.
	But in June 2021, six months after he was supposed to have been removed from Britain, Elliot murdered a 35-year-old in a horrific knife fight.
	Elliot was last month jailed for at least 26 years for murder.
	Supermodel Naomi Campbell, line-of-duty actress Thandie Newton, and soul-sanger Beverly Knight each spoke out against Elliot's deportation, among other criminals.
	But tonight, they made no comment about Elliot's subsequent conviction for murder.
	Historian David Olusoga also did not respond to our questions.
	Sorry, was that a picture of the actual knife fight?
	If we can... Yes.
	And that's a machete in his hand.
	Yes. Ernesto Elliott is the guy on the right.
	Ah, okay. And he killed the guy on the left.
	He slashed him.
	They were slashing each other.
	Right. And the guy on the left, Nathaniel Eiuago, he died six days afterwards in the hospital.
	This is part of Jamaican culture which I don't think we've fully appropriated yet.
	Maybe we'll skip this one.
	OK. Labour MP Clive Lewis, who coordinated a letter against the removal flight in 2020, made no comment yesterday.
	So, where are all these people?
	The letter was signed by fellow Labour politicians.
	Former Home Secretary Priti Patel led the criticism of his blocked deportation today, backed by current Home Secretary Swella Braverman and Tory MP Chris Philip, Minister for State of Crime.
	Speaking today at a policy exchange event, Patel said, I was heavily involved in that, as Home Secretary at the time, and I'm afraid, as ever, we came up against various specialist immigration lawyers.
	Labour MPs, but also celebrities who for some reason thought that they should stop a deportation flight of foreign national offenders going back to Jamaica, and that was completely wrong.
	But two things on this.
	First of all, those celebrities who spoke out against this, they should basically get this guy or somebody like them that should be required to live in their house.
	So it's like, okay, you've stopped the deportation of this guy, he's now going to come and live in your spare bedroom and you can deal with him yourself.
	Second thing, actually...
	I'm going to call bullshit on that whole Tory response as well, because they managed to put us all under house arrest for two years.
	When they want to do something, they can do it very, very quickly.
	They've got a majority.
	They could do anything they damn well pleased, and they could have sorted this out as well.
	They're just using it as an excuse.
	Yes, and the question is, why do they remember this now?
	Why do they remember this now?
	And there's a question as to whether conservatives, or at least the leadership of the Conservative Party, let me put it this way, they had a compass, a political compass.
	At one time, yeah. Or why are they playing along with this woke nonsense?
	Yeah. Well, their soundbites are on brand, they're conservative, you know, what people remember as once having been a conservative party, but their actions are completely different.
	Yes, and the tweet continues by Suela Breverman.
	So I'm afraid it is absolutely appalling that individual who should have been on the plane basically was taken off the flight and went on to commit murder.
	This murderer should have been deported on a flight out of this country in 2020, but the courts blocked his removal after dozens of Labour MPs cried out it was an injustice.
	So much for their pledge to keep Britain's streets safe.
	Okay, I'm not a legal expert.
	There may be something that I don't get here, but I think that it was the Tory party that was in power.
	Locking us down and making us wear face masks wasn't legal either.
	They still bloody did it.
	They can do what they want to do when they want to do it.
	And Philip added, as immigration minister in December 2020, I tried to deport this dangerous criminal.
	But labor MPs and various celebrities, including Naomi Campbell, Vandy Newton, Naomi Harris and David Olusoga, opposed the flight and most criminals were taken off the flight following legal challenges.
	Months later, the man subsequently murdered one of our fellow citizens.
	Labor MPs and virtue signaling celebrities should think again.
	You know, I'm really asking myself, why do celebrities think that they should always interfere with politics, especially when they have nothing other to do than shout injustice or they have no argument?
	Well, presumably because media has become so up its own rear end with wokeism that it is a surefire way of getting yourself noticed and favourably acclaimed and, you know, it will help you get the next job.
	If you speak out against this thing, you won't work in media.
	Yes, and I must say it's a way that they find to stay relevant.
	They think that, you know, in order to appeal to a niche or not so niche audience.
	Well, and the other sad thing is that we think that they've got something interesting to say.
	And that, you know, places like the Daily Mail, they can get clicks by running what these nobodies think.
	I mean, their job is to sing and dance on stage and amuse us when we're...
	When we're slightly bored of an afternoon.
	It's not to get political advice from them.
	For some reason, we think because somebody's on telly, but they've got something interesting to say.
	And I don't want to be misunderstood.
	I don't think that the fact that someone is a celebrity means that, or someone is famous, means that they don't have an opinion that occasionally should be valued.
	There are, but I'm talking about celebrities who are...
	Who don't give arguments for what they're doing.
	They're just mouthpieces of woke ideology and they virtue signal without saying why.
	Dangerous virtue signaling.
	Yeah. Actually, that's the manifestation of vice.
	It has nothing to do with virtue.
	It's only something they remember when the camera is on.
	When the public eye is not there, they don't care about it.
	They don't have to pay any costs for it.
	They don't live in the areas where these people get put.
	So I continue from the article.
	On June 2nd, 2021, Elliot was involved in the vicious knife fight in broad daylight in Greenwich, southeast London.
	Alongside his son, Nico, 23, Elliot robbed and murdered 35-year-old Nathaniel Aiu-Ago in a row over drugs.
	The horrifying incident was videoed by shocked neighbors.
	It shows Elliot, his son, and another man repeatedly lunging with long-bladed knives and a hammer at the victim, who was armed with a machete.
	Mr. Aiu Ago collapsed after being stabbed through the heart and died in the hospital six days later.
	Onlookers who witnessed the bloody eight-minute confrontation suffered significant trauma, police said.
	It was a crime that would never have been taking place if Elliot, 45, had been sent back to his birth country.
	So, I must say that this seems to me to be a colossal mess.
	And where should we start?
	It seems that everyone involved in this is wrong.
	Yes, especially the Home Office.
	Yes, we have Labour MPs that did what they frequently do.
	They find ways to make law enforcement a debate.
	We have celebrities that interfered with a discussion that I don't think they should have interfered with.
	And we have members of the Conservative Party Who actually played along with it.
	And I think there are some issues to be raised here because we constantly listen to this idea of justice as being nowadays as having to be merciful.
	And there is this non sequitur, this discussion that is completely sophistical in the way that it is presented and it revolves around conceptions of social justice that are really murky and they are intended to muddy the waters.
	And I want to say, what about not feeling safe and what about the people not feeling safe?
	Well, this is the perfect segment to follow our El Salvador segment because, you know, as we finished on that one, you could have an army of sociologists looking at this problem and they would come up with the same set of solutions that we are currently implementing here.
	The only thing that actually worked was, well, making sure they don't get in in the first place in our case, but when they do, dealing with them harshly and locking them up or getting rid of them.
	But it's not to do this woke process.
	And that's the issue that when we see politicians and woke ideologues and celebrities approaching the topic of law enforcement in such a way, we don't feel safe.
	I don't feel safe.
	I must say this.
	And also, I do not feel safe at all when I think that people who should have been deported were set free two weeks after dodging deportation.
	Now, another question that we should ask is why do we have deportations?
	I think the short answer is because no country has a duty to host criminals of another country.
	Do you think that this is a harsh take?
	No. I mean, again, going back to that earlier segment, I mean, I've got some sympathy for the fact that the MS-13 and 18th Street Gang sort of achieved their sort of higher power levels in the environment of LA, failed state, and then they got chucked out.
	But yeah, in these cases, I suspect this guy was probably a criminal before he got here anyway.
	Yeah, and absolutely should be.
	But the thing is, at least in Jamaica, I mean, their standards of dealing with criminals is a bit more efficient and to the point than ours, where we try and...
	I do not know much about this.
	Well, it's not going to be as soft as here, that's for certain.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.
	So the thing is, though, that there is another thing to be said, that it seems to me that if you move to a country and disrespect it, then you should be shown the exit door.
	Again, I hope this doesn't sound...
	I've travelled all around the world, and yeah, if you don't obey the local laws, they will just chuck you out.
	They don't make a big song and dance about it.
	You're just gone. Yes. And I think it is a sign of cultural deterioration when we make basic commonsensical stuff and ideas about law enforcement as a matter of political debate.
	I don't think that this should be a matter of political debate.
	Yeah. This brings everyone down.
	This is dumbing down. And it brings the public discussion on very basic stuff as whether we should have laws or something instead of actually debating more interesting and more – no, it's not a matter of interest.
	Sorry, that was a mistake.
	More pivotal things.
	But as much as anything, it's become an industry because you create this criminal community, you don't do anything to address it, and then you have loads of people whose jobs it is to administer the problem.
	You know, the sociologists and the what have you, and the people in the NGOs who get involved in this.
	And their livelihood depends on this being a continuous problem.
	I agree with this, but it would not deprive them of their ability to talk about this if people who should be punished were punished because all they are doing is just trying to find different ways of portraying how people have been victimized by the system and how they are not responsible for their own action.
	They could do that with law enforcement.
	Yeah, no, I'd save the money on the sociologists and build one of those El Salvadorian mega prisons.
	Yeah. So let us go and have a look at what Labour MPs and celebrities said back then.
	I must trigger warn you, we are going to look at a tweet from Diane Abbott.
	So she was saying, very concerned about this deportation flight.
	Some have lived here since they were children.
	Many are now fathers themselves.
	Due to COVID restrictions, they can't say goodbye to loved ones in person.
	I urge UK Home Office to stop deportations until the pandemic is over.
	So all the...
	All the harm that COVID restrictions did in destroying businesses and basically stopping people from getting cancer diagnosis and the other multitude of harms, which Diane Abbott voted for, and the only bit that she's upset about is because a Jamaican criminal can't say goodbye to their kids.
	And there is an assumption here that either all of them will be deported or none of them.
	Hmm. There is zero...
	And they have been talking about the possibility of a mistake.
	But as we said before, you cannot think that infallibility is the standard for policy or that in order to promote a general policy that has manifestations for all citizens, you have to claim infallibility.
	This is just not how societies can function.
	Let us go to an article that was written at the time by The Guardian, and it is important to see what they wrote and how they portrayed the conversation.
	This is by Afua Hirsch.
	Okay, the Home Office, mired in racism claims, now plans another mass deportation of black people.
	I think that there is sometimes too much of woke ideology.
	Common sense requires that we look at law enforcement from the perspective of individuals who engage in action and they have rights and responsibilities.
	It is on the basis of those rights and responsibilities that they receive treatment.
	Where she's gone instantly for the group identification and therefore that overrides any individual responsibility.
	So I think that it is another sign of cultural disintegration when we have people who are saying that we should stop thinking about how we treat people in terms of individuals.
	We should not stop treating persons as individual persons, but we should think of people as members of a group.
	And there is nothing more to it.
	And this is blindingly obvious that they don't care about this, they just care about their audience.
	Politicians care about the votes, woke celebrities care about the audience, and they want to appeal to a large segment of the population as a publicity stunt.
	So, let me read a bit the article by Afua Hirsch.
	Take a moment to think of the Home Office.
	It's a troubled place.
	The Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has been labeled a bully, and the evidence suggests breach the ministerial code, according to the man who investigated her.
	The department itself has been found to have violated equality laws by disregarding the warnings about the impact of its hostile environment policy on black people.
	And the most senior black home office employee on the compensation scheme for the resulting Windrush scandal has resigned amid complaints of discrimination.
	It emerged last week.
	It's not just racism, said Alexandra Ankra, a former barrister who worked as head of policy on the scheme, although that strikes me as a fairly fatal error all on its own for a program specifically designed to compensate victims of racism.
	The scheme was so lacking in compassion for victims, Ankara said, that those relying on it, many of them sick and elderly, were being re-traumatized by it.
	Why are we talking about race here?
	We are talking about someone who was convicted of criminal violence and knife crime and Grounds for that person being deported.
	Why does race have got to be dragged into?
	I agree on the criticisms of the Home Office.
	It's a completely dysfunctional department.
	It should be broken up or radically changed in many, many ways.
	The right criticism of the Home Office is that they let too many people in in the first place, not that they failed to kick them out.
	Exactly. And I think that political science and political commenting is a comparative affair.
	It's not enough to just say this office doesn't work.
	You need to have alternatives.
	You need to have solutions.
	And you need to have a sort of compass that points the direction towards which that agency should function.
	Mm-hmm. And it seems to me that the person who writes this article has the exact opposite...
	Right, because they will pay no cost.
	If you said, okay, fine, well, five people from this flight are now going to live in your house, they would change their tune extremely quickly.
	And let me just focus on the last three paragraphs of this article.
	It writes, we already know how this plays out with the government.
	The Home Office will claim those and such flights are dangerous criminals.
	Well, in this case, they were justified.
	Yep, proven correct. Yet many are not.
	Stephen Shaw, commissioned by the government itself to conduct an independent review in 2018, emphasized that the 12-month sentences that triggered deportation are not a very good guide to criminality.
	Indeed, it was deeply troubling to remove low-risk offenders who have grown up in the UK. For more serious offenders, there are the questionable ethics of offloading them to another country when their offending follows an upbringing in the UK. Either way, Shaw said in the clearest terms that these kinds of deportations should stop.
	Again, I think there's this assumption that either all of them have to be deported or none of them.
	Okay, I'm not going to say there could be a way of looking at that.
	But yeah. Okay. So, and I'll finish.
	That's why I and almost 90 others, says the author, including Bernardine Evaristo, David Olusoga, Naomi Campbell, Naomi Harris, and Sandy Newton, have signed a letter today calling directly on the airlines involved not to be complicit in this forthcoming mass deportation.
	Thousands more have signed a petition against the flights.
	And ultimately, if the government wants to stop lawyers and people like us making last-minute interventions to save people's lives, it needs to stop organizing last-minute deportations of those who may have the right to be here.
	And it needs to stop now.
	Okay, so who signed this letter?
	Let us see the next tweet by Lee Anderson.
	You can view it and we have various Labour MPs who signed this letter.
	You can check it out afterwards if you want.
	So the thing is, I want to say that I'm really worried about the rule of law because if the rule of law is no more.
	Society is no more.
	And I must say that nowadays we have We have a really dangerous discourse that focuses just on the individual who is impacted by a particular policy.
	And what do I mean by that?
	Because there are all sorts of ways in which this could be interpreted.
	Some of them lead to sound policies, such as the idea that each individual should be treated fairly.
	And there are also some other issues that individuals have rights to be protected by the government that they pay taxes to.
	And that government claims to receive their taxes in order to protect them.
	There is also that kind of, that right that individuals possess.
	Again, it fits so nicely again with the last segment, is that we in the West, we've not hit rock bottom yet.
	The people of El Salvador, when they're watching gang members playing football with the head of somebody that they know, they realise that we can't have this soft idiocracy go on any longer.
	But in this country, we still think that it's a luxury that we can afford to pamper and indulge criminals rather than deal with them.
	And it could be seen in a different way.
	It could be seen that it could be said That we are indoctrinating the young generations to view institutions as a given.
	And this is where hatred of particular aspects of tradition, of Western culture and Western cultures are vilified.
	And this is where the attack in Western culture leads to, whether intentionally or not.
	I think for some people it is intentional.
	For many others, they may be playing along and being mouthpieces of an ideology that they do not understand.
	But there's a really significant problem when we think that the institutions we have around us are to be taken as a given, because they're not to be taken as a given.
	And I think it was Solzhenitsyn in the Gulag Archipelago thing who was saying that one of the major problems is the mentality that people have where they say, oh, all these evils of totalitarianism and all these We're good to go.
	Unless some trends are somehow we react against some trends.
	It's happened several times in my lifetime.
	Yes. I mean, if you go back a little bit further, it's happened in countries as close as Germany or France or, you know, it is a common occurrence that, you know, countries fall apart in this way.
	Yeah. So let us see now what conservatives say now.
	We see Chris Phillip.
	As Immigration Minister in December 2020, I tried to deport this dangerous criminal.
	But Labour MPs and various celebrities opposed the flight and most criminals were taken off.
	Again, I mean, we said this, I think.
	I mean, yeah, again, as Immigration Minister, he tried to get rid of this one guy.
	But, you know, while he's trying to get rid of one guy, he's got another 50 boats turning up that day.
	Next click, please, if we can go to Lee Anderson.
	He says, Shocking.
	Our government fought tooth and nail to remove this animal and a whole host of vile criminals, but the flight was stopped after a legal challenge supported by the lefty celebrity do-gooders and some of the Labour Party.
	Actions have consequences.
	Hang your heads in shame.
	And the next by Swala Braverman.
	Yeah, this murderer should have been deported on a flight out of this country in 2020, but the courts blocked his removal after...
	Again, we go back to this question.
	It was a Tory government at the time.
	They're just trying to pass the buck.
	Yes, and I think to end this segment, I want to express a particular kind of, let's say, dissatisfaction with...
	The leadership of conservatives who seem to me to be playing along with woke ideology.
	I will match your dissatisfaction and raise you utter contempt for these people because they could have addressed this many years ago.
	They've got an 18-seat majority.
	If they can lock us down for two years and put us through all sorts of hell, they can easily make the legal necessary changes to sort this out as well.
	Yes. So I want to say that we are, in a sense, paying taxes to be protected by people who do not care about the law.
	And I think that if we are not to forget individual rights, we should also remember the rights of citizens to be protected by people who manifest criminal behavior.
	And I want to say that I think that conservatives should question woke ideology a bit more and should be a bit more, let's say, confrontational in discussion or at least in public discussion and try to talk to the majority of the population and undecided voters instead of just playing along with this horrible virtue-signaling But I'm not even sure they believe what they're saying.
	I think this is all pantomime.
	This is all theatre. They're going along with it and they're saying the on-brand stuff, but their actions reveal that they really couldn't care less.
	So the thing is that if they do not believe what they're saying, what they're offering is a more slow advance of the woke agenda.
	Yeah, that's what the Conservatives are.
	It is socialism at the speed limit.
	Okay, so let us move to the next topic.
	There must be something really weird happening in Virginia and its education system.
	Virginia Democrats have claimed that teaching communism is offensive against people from Asia.
	And this is, I think, one of the worst excuses in the history of excuses.
	So just how does this sound?
	Cheating the evils of communism is offensive to Asians.
	Okay, before we dig deeper into this, you can visit our website and you can read the magnificent article by Harry Robinson, The Anatomy of the Communists.
	So this is something that is well worth checking because Harry is doing an amazing job in portraying the psychology behind communists.
	And I think that this article should be read and...
	Yeah, that's a good one. It's also very popular on the website.
	I've seen it has done tremendously well.
	So it might be worth checking it.
	Now, I want to say because I did a segment some time ago about the education in Virginia, it was about a month ago, and I must say that Virginia seems to remind me of a plot in a Stephen King novel where you have a town where things mostly function, but then you have a new character coming in.
	You know, this time it's the woke ideologue and suddenly everyone starts acting and reacting weirdly.
	You know, I think we need a new term.
	You know how governments have invented this term disinformation or malinformation to describe information that's actually true but they just don't like it or it goes against their narrative.
	I think we need a term for education like dis-education or mal-education because that's basically what A lot of British schools as well, but certainly, from what I've seen, most of the American schools, they're involved in maleducation.
	Would you say that dumbing down is...
	It's gone well beyond dumbing down into just full-blown communist indoctrination.
	And you'll see precisely why this is not over the top.
	Now, let us read this article by Helen Raley.
	Virginia Democrats recently voted no on a bill that would have required schools to teach about the danger of communism and the suffering of its victims after a teacher's union claimed such a curriculum would incite anti-Asian hate.
	So we have a teacher's union.
	Claiming that teaching the dangers of communism would somehow offend Asian Americans, and we have Virginia Democrats actually thinking that that's a good idea.
	Speaking about Asians on the seething end of communism, I've travelled to many countries, and Cambodia, one of them, and in Phnom Penh there's a museum that you can go to, I think it's called the Tao Shlong, something like that.
	Something like that.
	And it's basically this repurposed school that was used as a torture and execution centre.
	And they got infested by the Khmer Rouge and the communism ideals.
	And you can go and see the steel metal frame beds welded to the floor that they used to bring people in on almost a conveyor belt system, chain them to this bed and torture them to extract information out of them.
	And basically, in order to end your suffering, you needed to give them three names.
	And then, of course, they would then go and get those three people and they would give you three names.
	So, I mean, Asian...
	That's just one example. There are many other examples of Asian people who have been horrifically victimised by communism.
	It is not hate because they suffered it.
	It's just not pure nonsense.
	It's pure nonsense.
	And this is a good occasion to show how masks fell off and how woke ideologues here, they are trying to create a very paternalistic framework and they're trying to tell us that we shouldn't offend people.
	And they also want to try to control what counts as offense, even if it's completely ridiculous.
	And that is also why they think that common sense is to be, they should attack common sense.
	An extremely low resolution view of the world, which is basically everything is white man bad and hate.
	I mean, that's all they can see.
	So every issue they have to interpret through that lens and thus we get this.
	I continue from the article.
	Okay, the bill HB 1816 requires Virginia's governor to recognize November 7 as Victims of Communism Day.
	All public elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth to honor victims of communism on this day and teach a curriculum about the evils of communism.
	A bill like this is long overdue because communism is responsible for the deaths of 100 million people in the 20th century.
	These victims had names, faces, unfulfilled hopes and dreams.
	They were husbands, wives, daughters, sons, uncles, aunties, grandparents or grandchildren.
	In Communist China alone, an estimated 30 million people were starved to death during the Great Chinese Famine.
	The victims included my baby uncle, who was born in 1959 and died in my grandmother's arms.
	Additionally, I lost two grand-uncles, a grand-aunt and her family of five, and my maternal great-grandmother.
	We, the living, owe it to those victims not to forget them and treat their deaths as mere statistics.
	Instead, we must honor them by remembering how they lived and died and passing important historical lessons down to future generations so the atrocity we experience will never happen again.
	I think the author is from China and she is in the United States at the moment and she lives there.
	According to woke ideologues, her children being taught about the evils of communism would be an offense to them and her.
	This is beyond It's mad.
	The obvious connection is that she wants to promote communism and is just using what is the in thing at the moment to shut things down that you don't like by calling it racist.
	I wish we could start calling taxes racist and get them shut down like that.
	No one likes paying taxes.
	Okay. As a survivor of communism, I'm greatly troubled by survey after survey showing that more American youth prefer communism and its close cousin, socialism, over free market capitalism.
	I don't blame these young people, but I fault our nation's education system for failing to teach them the evils of communism slash socialism.
	Okay, this is a bugbear of mine.
	We do not have free market capitalism.
	What we have is socialism being sold as free market capitalism.
	So if you tell the kids that what we currently have is free market capitalism, of course they're going to rebel against it because it's broken.
	But also wouldn't you say that the kind of society that they're describing is much worse than the one we are living now because we still have some institutions worth defending.
	We're on the road to it anyway.
	Yeah. So, okay.
	Historian George Santayana warned, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
	Therefore, I applaud a bill like HB 1816 that requires public elementary and secondary schools in Virginia to commemorate all victims on November 7, the Victims of Communism Day, and teach their students about the evils of communism.
	Yet, Virginia's largest teachers' union opposed HB 1816 with an absurd claim that teaching about the dangers of communism and honoring its victims would incite anti-Asian hate because out of the five current communist countries, four of them, China, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam, are in Asia.
	Since the Democrats are beholding to teachers' unions, it is unsurprising that Virginia Democrats rejected HB 1816.
	Sorry, this makes absolutely no sense.
	Well, there's more than four communist countries.
	I mean, LA, California, I suppose, is a state, but there's Canada, that's a communist country.
	But how would honouring the victims of communism incite anti-Asian hate?
	Yeah. They really did not.
	They didn't even do...
	Okay, woke ideologues have got high with their own supply.
	They didn't even do basic homework in order to say this.
	No, they did not. And it's really sad that they are a teacher's union.
	Anyway. Okay.
	The claim that teaching communism would offend Asians is offensive to all Asian Americans.
	Not teaching the evils of communism dishonours millions of victims and does a disservice to all students in Virginia.
	If Virginia's Teachers Union and the state's Democrats sincerely want to address anti-Asian hate, an excellent place to start is to end their war on merit in schools.
	And I must say that I did a segment about a month ago, a month and a half, and talking about some equity policies that were implemented in schools.
	And it was very weird.
	And let us see why Virginia Democrats and woke ideologues think that they can speak for Asian Americans.
	If we could move to this hyperlink, We see this.
	This was a person who was paid, I think, roughly half a million dollars by the superintendent of Virginia to implement this Goal in schools.
	And this writes, the equity imperative, equitable access, equal outcomes.
	Equitable access to resources and opportunities that guarantee fair, just and affirming experiences and produce equal outcomes for every student without exception.
	And in order to, just to remember what… Equal outcomes for every student without exception?
	Yes. And actually… What's the point of turning up then?
	You might as well just give them all A's.
	Yes, and let us also remember what they did and tie it also with today's present topic.
	If we move to the next article, this was published about a month ago, and it was talking about Northern Virginia.
	And I just read a few paragraphs from the text.
	The National Merit Scholarship Program is a competition of 1.5 million students based on their scores on the Preliminary Standard Achievement Test National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
	Commented students rank in the top 3%, while semifinalists test in the top 1%.
	It's an achievement that can make a difference on a college or scholarship application.
	But the kids who weren't told they were National Merit winners or were told too late couldn't include it on their application.
	Given that the program leaves notifications up to the individual schools, it's possible that all these failures were bureaucratic snafers.
	But the context offers a less generous reading.
	Public education in Fairfax County has become the front line for an equity agenda that has hardened into a war on achievers who are disproportionately Asian-American.
	As a federal judge pointed out in 2022, in a case contesting Thomas Jefferson School's new admissions policy, the Fairfax County School Board eliminated the merit-based entrance exam to make room for African American and Hispanic students by reducing the number of Asian Americans.
	In that sense, it works.
	So Democrats here who support the woke agenda and the teachers union, they cannot pretend to speak in favor of Asian Americans.
	I saw a tweet, I think it was yesterday, it was on Stanford University, of their latest intake, only 22% are white.
	And less than half of that, a lot less than half of that, will be white men, of course.
	So white men are going to be something like between 8 and 10% of Stanford's intake, despite being 35% of the population.
	And Asians get it even worse, they're even more scaled back because they have the misfortune of being a bit bright.
	The point is that I think that this shows woke agenda in its complete insanity.
	It tries to create division where there isn't necessarily any and it tries to foster a victim mentality To people who don't need it.
	No one needs this mentality.
	But why should they go to Asian Americans and tell them that just commemorating the evils of communism and your loved ones who were victimized by communism can incite anti-Asian hate.
	Yeah, I mean, well, they're not worried about anti-Asian hate, are they?
	By whom? They're worried about anti-communist hate.
	By whom? Yeah, who is going to have anti-Asian sentiments of anti-Asian hatred towards anti-Asian people on the basis of commemorating communism?
	Anyway, I think that's complete insanity, I think.
	And I think we should again talk about common sense and talk a bit about why we should read history.
	And I think that in a way, we have some really basic ideas about this.
	I think I'll just list five.
	Care for truth. Remember those who died so that we could enjoy the liberties we enjoy right now.
	Understanding the human conditions and being more able to navigate in the world.
	Maturing and becoming more realistic.
	Becoming a more informed and critically minded citizen.
	Right. Do modern universities achieve that?
	I think not. And they want to do the exact opposite.
	They do not care about the truth.
	They view language in a completely instrumental way.
	That is why they push forward all these emancipation theories.
	We have people saying, okay, I'll just think of a group.
	I'll present this group as being, you know, victimized and oppressed.
	And I will address members of that group and try to foster victim mentality to them.
	And I will also present myself as their liberator and as someone who speaks in favor of their emancipation.
	And also what they are doing is that they are putting forward the idea that anyone who disagrees with Anything that comes along with this new way of viewing things, this victim narrative, this narrative of victimization, will be interpreted as someone who is actually Attacking people's humanity.
	So there is zero concern about truth.
	There is concern about pushing forward emancipation agendas and victimization narratives.
	Also, they do not care about the past and they think that the notion of tradition is inherently problematic and that the entirety of Western civilization and culture should be destroyed.
	This is why instead of looking at a sort of measured approach towards tradition and to say that some institutions work, some others do not work, we see a blind rejection of the entirety of Western culture.
	So we are not talking about people who approach their topic in a measured way.
	Not quite. Also, they purposefully want their followers and students who they indoctrinate not to be critically minded citizens.
	Why? Because they want to manipulate their emotions.
	The thing is, history, as we said before, and political history, particularly political history, is a comparative science.
	It's not just an issue of saying something doesn't work.
	It's something doesn't work.
	There are all these alternatives.
	This is the best alternative.
	The other alternatives are not the best ones.
	We should stick with the best alternative.
	That's the more realistic outlook to it.
	But I think that what Children are not given by this kind of education is the ability to sharpen their critical skills as well as the raw material to use their critical skills upon.
	Because you can be, let's say, very smart in the sense that you can be really good at really quick-witted.
	But if you have zero historical knowledge to apply your critical skills, the outcome isn't going to be terribly impressive.
	So, I want to say that when we have people who are educated into not being critically minded, we have a social sphere, we have a public sphere, where there is no significant dialogue.
	That's why we need another term for it, because it's not education, it's maleducation or diseducation or whatever it is, but we need a new term for it, clearly.
	We have people who think that their feelings are the antenna that connects them to reality and that they are Yes.
	And I want to say that the issue of feelings is that there is this idea that teaching history is going to offend the feelings of people and it's going to prevent classrooms from being safe spaces.
	History is not supposed to make you feel comfortable.
	History is supposed to make you feel unsettled in a controlled environment.
	I've read history books that have made me feel utterly sick, queasy.
	I mean, I could start listing examples, but I mean, absolutely horrific stuff in history and you read it because you're supposed to learn from it.
	Yes, it's not a matter of liking what you're reading or a matter of safeguarding your emotions.
	It's a matter of understanding things and understanding how to improve.
	And also understanding how to improve your society.
	So you cannot improve unless you think that there is a reason for improving.
	That is why they literally push forward this kind of subjectivism based on feeling because it communicates the message that there is nothing beyond what you think is true out there.
	Your emotions are infallible guides to reality.
	There is no reason for improvement.
	And also, your emotions are infallible guides to moral insight.
	Also, you cannot improve unless you know the direction you have to take to improve.
	And I must say this because we very frequently have leftists and woke ideologues who challenge and criticize the establishment or whatever they present as being the establishment or an aspect of that or a part of that establishment.
	But they're not putting something forward.
	They focus on what they call to be injustice or bad policies, but they're not telling us why their suggested policies are to be preferred.
	And actually they're not to be preferred.
	We shouldn't want to have communism.
	Well, that's why they're so keen to close down those discussions of history.
	Yes. And also, it's not just to shut down the discussion.
	It's also to present anyone who criticizes communism as being someone who engages in hate speech.
	Against whom, again?
	You never know.
	But the goal is to create a classroom like the following.
	So instead of teaching history and educating the citizens of tomorrow
	and educating critically minded persons who are going to safeguard the their country, we have classrooms of this sort.
	Half of them should be in a zoo, not a classroom.
	Okay, so let us move forward to this tweet from Helen Raleigh.
	She says, this is absurd.
	In China alone, more than 40 million people died between 1946 to 1976 due to communism, including some of my family members.
	Not teaching communism in the name of protecting Asians is a gross injustice to victims and insult to all Asian Americans.
	And we have the response on top of it.
	We must teach history.
	No, not that history.
	The reasoning that anti-communism is anti-Asian is really, really flimsy.
	By that logic, anti-slavery lessons are anti-Muslim, since the majority of remaining slavery is practiced in the Muslim world.
	It's not just domaining slavery.
	Slavery throughout history has been a Muslim-dominated trade.
	The slave trade into the Arab world from Africa was many, many times out of the transatlantic slave trade, but that's not taught either because it's not useful.
	And I don't know if the members of Virginia's Teachers' Union, at least that union that we're talking about, are aware of this.
	Because Virginia's got some history on this, haven't they?
	Because that's Glenn Youngkin who came in.
	I mean, he came in because he was pushing back on...
	Oh, some aspect. Was it CRT or some other?
	I mean, there's so much nonsense that American schools use track of it.
	But I mean, he pushed back on some aspect of this.
	And clearly, this is quite a base bill requiring the teaching of communism.
	But obviously, he's going to get some pushback.
	But, you know, carry on, sir.
	I think we should end with a video with Yeonmi Park.
	Let us watch. A North Korean defector issuing a stark warning about woke ideology in American classrooms.
	Yeonmi Park defected from the regime as a young teen before seeking refuge in the United States.
	The Columbia University alumna described the intolerance in its classrooms as shocking, saying that woke ideologies leading the country down the path of North Korea If we don't reverse course.
	Joining us now is Yeonmi Park, author of the new book, While Time Remains, A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America.
	Yeonmi, welcome to you.
	Thank you. And you just graduated two years ago.
	You are getting this look at America since you arrived here in 2015.
	Yes. And specifically in the classroom.
	What has your experience been?
	What have you seen? And what is your warning?
	Yeah, so when I came to America having no idea, I thought somehow this was a free country where individuals can have different thoughts and opinions.
	When I started university at Columbia University, I couldn't believe because they were exactly saying the same things that my North Korean teachers taught me in the North Korean class.
	That is remarkable. Yeah. What specifically?
	Can you give us some sort of idea of what you were hearing inside the classroom that leads you to say this?
	So they said all the problems that we have in the world is because of the greedy capitalism and also the Western civilization and white men.
	That was the exact same thing that my North Korean teachers taught me, that all the evil was because of USA and the capitalism.
	And at Columbia, professors were saying, the only solution to all these problems is a communist revolution.
	I must say it is very worrying when we have a North Korean defector who comes back to...
	I mean, it's not just him. I know people, again, who grew up in the other side of the Iron Curtain.
	And they all say the same thing.
	They see the same process playing out in our public discourse today.
	I mean, on basically every issue.
	You know, we are in the midst of a...
	A communist cultural revolution.
	That is what is happening in the West, and only some of us can see it.
	Yes, and there are some who question this, and I think they should watch this video.
	And let us watch the final part of it.
	It's just a minute. Can you give us a little bit of an idea what that was like for you?
	Defecting? Yeah, so I was escaping from North Korea at 13.
	I did not even know what freedom was.
	I was literally escaping for a bowl of rice.
	We were starving. When I arrived in China, I was sold as a sex slave for $20.
	And they sold my mother for $65.
	And while we're speaking right now, there are 300,000 North Korean girls in China who are modern-day slaves.
	So I've been asking everybody that I met in Hollywood, in mainstream and big tech, they keep saying that they're denouncing slavery, that slavery is wrong.
	And they say that, you know, silence is violence.
	So I've been asking them, can you speak up for these women who are victimized?
	Their organs are harvested out of them under CCP. And all these people told me, they said, as if I'm some clueless person.
	They're all making money out of CCP. Nobody in America wants to stand up for those North Korean people.
	So, she's talking about the double standard, okay, that Democrats and the Hollywood mainstream culture and big tech, they have.
	And I think it's important...
	They're one and the same, aren't they? The Democrats, Communisms, it's all a form of evil.
	So I think the only antidote to this can be reading history or at least involves reading history and remembering what it is that we are being bombarded with and questioning it.
	Absolutely right.
	Okay, so let's go to the comments.
	I think we've got a couple of video comments.
	Check out this interesting wood stove setup.
	So this guy uses this to heat his shop.
	So he goes around town collecting used vegetable oil from restaurants and after he filters it, then he puts it inside of this big tank here.
	Then it runs through that pump and it goes into this pipe where he adds air to aerosolize the fuel.
	Then... Well that's pretty cool.
	I'd like to have one of those except I would almost certainly destroy my house in a massive fire if I tried to do that but yeah I like that.
	Have we got any other video um oh yeah okay.
	Hey Lotus Eaters just wanted to point out that my comment on my dogs And my guns wasn't so much at you guys.
	I'm a long time supporter and love what you guys do.
	It was more like you're gonna have as good a time trying to take that from me as you would taking this from me.
	Now this is my new SIG P320 X5 Legion series and it is my favorite thing in the world at the moment.
	That is both a good looking gun and a good looking dog.
	I must get a dog. I would like to get the gun as well, but slightly trickier over here.
	Yeah. This California native is in the genus Arctostaphylos, a genus exclusive to the state with over 100 species.
	When I filmed this, I could actually smell the sweet aroma of these delicate bellflowers, which the bees love to pollinate through buzz pollination.
	The wood is a stunning red to purple.
	Seeds can lie dormant for a century, waiting to germinate with smoke, and the berries can apparently be used to make jam.
	Natural product. Okay, so to the written comments.
	Thomas Howe says...
	Oh, this is in reference to the first segment.
	I just like, nay hate, this is a method for keeping prisoners.
	However, this isn't a prison.
	It is a holding facility for enemy combatants.
	And one can only hope this jail is empty in a generation for lack of prisoners available.
	You say that they're hopefully going to kill each other off because, I mean, those guys aren't ever coming out.
	Yeah. But I wouldn't mind that prison for all the other prisoners as well.
	I mean, you don't need to keep them in there for life.
	I mean, but I mean, if all prisons were like that, and mind you, the thing is these days, the sort of people they put in there is people like us for wrong speak or, yeah, whatever, something like that.
	They shouldn't get any ideas.
	Yeah, quite. Lord Nerovar says, really love this new stance on tackling cartels like MS-13.
	Most politicians in the modern day will see a problem and attempt to tackle it with a scalpel, carefully stripping it away and dealing with it in a calm, methodical way.
	Some problems, however, require a sledgehammer, and approaching them with a scalpel is unrealistic.
	This sledgehammer approach, might I say, is not a moment too soon.
	I mean, I think each of those individuals, they've still got the full legal process, but they just sort of expedited it somewhat and, you know, getting them off the streets as they have to do.
	Bay State says, that's it.
	I'm starting a British alternative for Scottish and English democracy-based...
	That's the acronym. Party. First order of business, mega prisons for Britain.
	Yeah, that is the one aspect of public spending that I would be happy to pay more taxes for, is more prisons, because, quite frankly, they work.
	I love the acronym. Yes.
	Wuhan Wet Market says, El Salvadorian president will likely magically find himself losing the next election, 49-51 Brazil-style.
	The WEF can't have a functioning country in Latin America.
	Yeah, that is the thing. So I think he's skated under the radar for now, and he's been able to sort of get away with it because I think if the CIA had realised what an example he was going to be set, they would have been involved in it before now.
	In fact, I just saw recently the US State Department has set up an office in Hungary, in Budapest in Hungary, Which they say is outreach and all that kind of stuff.
	Clearly, they're laying the groundwork for fixing the next YouTube policy.
	Oh, actually, we're not on YouTube anymore.
	Yeah, for fixing the next election.
	That's what they're going to be doing, just like they did the last one.
	But yeah, no doubt there is an office in the CIA or the State Department, which is thinking, right, how can we rig the next El Salvadorian election?
	Should I read some from the next one?
	Yeah, go ahead. Okay. Omar Awad.
	Pseudo-empathy is the social currency of middle and upper class NIMBYs who will never feel the consequences of their advocacy from their white gated communities.
	They shut up because the social debt of a dead immigrant outweighs the social credit of protesting deportation.
	A calculated response because they don't actually care beyond gaining clout.
	I think our time is up.
	John, can we do a couple more?
	Are we up? Oh, okay.
	Yeah. Lord Nerover.
	I'm noticing a significant absolute of discontent on immigration and the so-called elite attitude to it.
	More and more, regular people are beginning to really notice the detrimental effect it's having on their lives and communities.
	Tension is most certainly brewing, and stories like this, combined with a deafening silence from on high in response to them, is only making it worse.
	I predict that immigration will be a hot-button issue in future election cycles for a while.
	Mm. Yes. Milord Neuva is always very sensible in these matters.
	And I think that this trend will continue in the following decades.
	Mm. Okay, Kevin Fox.
	I bet if it had been a Pole or Swede who had been due for deportation, there would have been silence from Labour and the celebs.
	It's only virtues to save, within quotation marks, POC criminals.
	Just like the judges who give out 11-month suspended sentences to violent offenders with a record as long as your arm because, like the police, they don't want to appear racist.
	Yep. Ross Diggle.
	I find it amazing how other countries in the Commonwealth don't grant visas to people with criminal records, yet we do.
	Right, right.
	Risto Rontanen. Justice isn't blindfolded anymore.
	They wear VR glasses bolted to their skull.
	Streaming woke ideologue.
	Good imagery, sir.
	No, absolutely. Should we get a couple in from the last section as well?
	Yeah. Kevin Fox says, I think this situation is why the Home Office were quick to remove Shemima Begin's citizenship before Syria deported her here.
	That is a thing to be careful of when it comes to deporting criminals, that the left will begin demanding that British criminals be sent back to the UK from overseas.
	It's the case in many countries that hasn't already happened.
	Here in Thailand, if you get found guilty of certain crimes, you get deported and blacklisted.
	Yeah, most countries are like that.
	They don't mess around. If you break the rules, you're instantly out and you can never come back again, even if it's a relatively minor rule that you breach.
	But for some reason, we can't do that here.
	Yep, you go ahead. Casey Darling, Koreans do not agree that teaching the evils of communism is racist towards Asians.
	Any sensible one.
	Mr Tomlinson says, we need a McCarthy-like root and branch search of all government employees, memberships and support of communist organisations.
	If they have communist propaganda in their social media feed, it's dangerous for our democracy as they are putting a failed ideology before the needs of everybody else.
	Well, I mean... That's basically everybody involved in the British state, including all the Conservative Party MPs, or at least most of them.
	So, well, yes, absolutely, we should all clear them out.
	But you're going to get rid of basically 99.8% of everybody who's drawing a government paycheck at the moment.
	But yeah, no, certainly don't disagree with that one.
	Let's get one from Mr.
	Desert Rat. It's impossible to teach world history without teaching the atrocities of communism.
	And what about anti-Russian hate?
	Yes. Well, that's very popular, of course, at the moment.
	The USSR is the most notable communist country in history.
	Yeah. Well, arguably, I don't know if communist China was...
	Those are the big two, certainly.
	Yes. Yeah. But you cannot not teach that.
	Yes, I know.
	Le Frenchman says, so what you're saying is putting gangs, machetes and communists in high security prisons would probably help make the world a better place.
	Yeah, surprising that, isn't it?
	Stunning turn up for the books.
	Do you want to pick out any more?
	Yeah, Ross Diggle.
	Is this the same argument as acknowledgement of the Holocaust is anti-Semitic, as lots of Muslims think it's a Jewish conspiracy to get sympathy for the Jewish race?
	That's an interesting point.
	If you make any attempt to downplay the Holocaust, that's hate.
	But if you don't make attempts to downplay communism, that's also hate.
	So one you must talk about and promote and the other one you must downplay for exactly the same reasons, even though the narratives are 180 apart.
	Good point. And George Happ, there is a tendency where East Asians are more conformist, which is a fertile soil for communism.
	For example, the mosque forest continues to go on in Japan, and we have seen what's still going on in China.
	Offending NPCs is good for everyone involved.

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